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All I know is that my best work has come out of being committed and happy.

William Hurt

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William Hurt
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: March 20
Film Actor
Film Producer
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
Washington
District of Columbia
William McChord Hurt
Committed
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Best
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But I am not going to live for ever. And the more I know it, the more amazed I am by being here at all.
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I have a film I want to direct. Gena Rowlands was going to do it with me a long time ago. It's about an older woman who's running a ranch in the west the old fashioned way.
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Not to be offensive, not to be capricious, not to be arbitrary, not to be neurotic, not to be an actor outer, you're just trying to get in and you're given so little time to get in gently, but it's always hard.
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I need six weeks of rehearsal and women need nine months and it took me 15 years to figure that out
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I demand minimal for paid rehearsal and not always six weeks either.
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And I don't want to use my troubles as an example of what to do and what not to do.
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You don't look at it as the size of the role. Quantity is not the point. You can be as thorough in 30 seconds as you can in three hours.
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The greatest single human gift is the ability to chase down our dreams.
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What's really frustrating with movies is the lack of improvement.
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I am so thrilled by the privilege of life, and yet at the same time I know that I have to let it go.
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I've been delighted by Cannes and Toronto but I keep saying I don't know how good we're going to be received in America because that's where it's most challenging
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The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done
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David Cronenberg knows what we actors do as artists.
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The Alexander Technique has helped me to undo knots, unblock energy and deal with almost paralysing stage fright
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People who have expertise or the luck to have rehearsal time with cameras have it over people who don't.
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It just seems like that because I do a lot of independent films that don't get to the mainstream.
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You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold.
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I was a science fiction junkie for a long time.
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I very much prefer the balance in a scene to standing out and so you have to make a decision
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But it's also another myth to think that you should be as tight as a drum and not have any frailties or fragilities.
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